Growing Up Step 3

So, I'm pretending to grow up and move to the next stage of my life.

Step 1? Finish up college. Done. Well, almost done. I've said goodbye to Rexburg and I'll be finishing my last 4 classes online. I'll graduate from BYU-Idaho in July.

Step 2? Get an awesome job. Done. I'll start work at KKAJ on January 23rd. So excited about this.

Step 3? Buy a car. Done. Yep, I just bought this beautiful creature. Isn't she gorgeous? Yes it's a she and I'm taking suggestions for names.

After looking online for quite a while and going to a few dealerships I was so happy to find this beautiful 2009 Toyota Camry. You could say it was love at first sight. This shows my excitement:

I've never owned a car before. This is going to be fun I can tell.

Stay tuned for more growing up steps in the life of Becky Dayton...

Photogeneticy Part 2

There are so many things I want to blog about right now:

1. Christmas -It's the 12th and I haven't done a Christmas post yet...
2. Barb and Jessie's visit this last weekend
3. Throwing Tia (the roommate, not brother-in-law) the coolest birthday sleepover party ever
4. My feelings about leaving Rexburg in two days forever
5. The fact that I'm not paying attention in class right now

Instead I'm going to write about something far less important. Remember how I posted about photogeneticy a while a go? If you don't then click here. Apparently I haven't learned anything. That's right, here's another post full of bad pictures and how they've come about....

Sometimes when you take online classes the teacher asks that you take pictures as proof that you are doing the assignment. When I took a cooking class there were some pretty ugly pictures that come out of it with me holding food with a big smile on my face. There were even some where I was half eating the food. Those turned out well. Well, this semester my roommate is taking an online Auto class. Each week she needs to teach someone what she has learned and take a picture of it. We got bored of taking the same thumbs-up-to-the-car-behind-us picture, so we got creative. Here are some of the treasure that came out of it...

Ew...

Windy Rexburg

Fuses

Too bright. Also where did Danielle go?

I'm not in this picture, but it had to be included

Sun

So there are a couple of treasures to make your day. Thanks Danielle for having an online auto class that required us to take such awesome pictures.

New Game

My family is cool. Why? Well for one, they keep giving me adorable nieces and nephews! For another, they are the only ones who read my blog, so it's okay the following pictures and videos are posted. BUT the main reason they're cool is because they make up games. Like the massage competition game. Wow that really needs a new name. Any ideas family?

Here are the judges preparing to give a score from 1-10. (By the way Chris and Chrissy were the winners.)

The competition in progress...

Here's round one of the competition. We had no idea what was about to happen....

The boys were less excited to do this competition so here was their payback....

Why Marie gave baby hands a 7 is totally beyond me. So, I think the boys were hoping that now we won't ask for another massage competition. Wrong-o. I have to play it again and again not just for the massages, but for my self esteem. I have to move out of my last place ranking...

What's in your purse?

A while a go in church we watched this Mormon Message. I remember when this talk was given and I thought it was so neat that girl had all those things in her purse. Well after church I decided to come home and play along. I went through my purse and this is what I discovered:

Dirty tissues - This girl isn't very clean. And she has bad allergies.

Kindle - Nerd.

Sunglasses - Sensitive eyes. She must wear contacts.

Mash pages- She's 12.

Hair elastic - She has long brown hair.

Wallet - This girl has 3 library cards. She has no life.

Keys - She has a home and car. Nice.

Harry Potter ticket stub - Harry Potter fan.

Monte Carlo ticket stub - Yep. She's definitely 12.

Usher name tag - She is an usher.

Earrings - These didn't last in her ears. She doesn't like to dress up.

Band-aids- Klutz.

Candy wrappers - She likes candy.

Chapstick - She's not very girly.

Wow. I'm never losing my purse. Ever. I really don't want to be defined by the contents of my purse.

Happy THANKSGIVING!

Lately I've been hearing people refer to this upcoming wondrous holiday as Turkey Day. That is not okay. That's as bad as people calling Christmas "Xmas." It's just not okay. It's Thanksgiving and Christmas people. Got it? Now that I've clarified that....I'm going to do the same thing as last year and write random things I'm thankful for:

1. My church calling. I get to pick the Hymns for church every Sunday. I love it so much.

2. An awesome immune system. I rarely get sick which is quite remarkable considering I live in the tundra.

3. Free exercise classes here on campus. I'm becoming quite the Zumba-ite. Zumbite? Zumban?

4. My job that will start in January. I'm really excited about that.

5. Twilight series. Just kidding. I am thankful for books though.

6. Orange Julius. Homemade. This is the latest fad of my apartment.

7. Big snow boots that would make Napoleon proud. They keep me from falling. Yay.

8. Grooveshark.com. Music on demand? Yes please.

9. There aren't any Herdmans here.

10. The Hunger Games trailer looks awesome. Now that Harry Potter is over and Twilight is wacko I need a new movie series. I think Hunger Games will deliver.

11. My Sudoku book that helps me stay awake in class when I'm sometimes struggling.

12. It's scarf season. I love scarves.

13. I think I'm out of the blogging slump I had for a while. We'll see how long it lasts this time.

14. Midnight walks in the snow. Followed of course by Hot Chocolate.

15. I'm going home in a few hours for Thanksgiving and EVERYONE in my family will be there! I'm very thankful for that!

Fall Festivities.

Soaking in the sun with a few final picnics

Carving pumpkins

Frolicking

Dressing up even after Halloween

Making soup

Going on beautiful hikes with my mom

"Fall"-ing. So glad my mom got a picture of that.

Nothing as beautiful as Utah in the Fall time!

Camping in the back of the van

The after/next morning picture of camping

Building forts

Enjoying beautiful fall colors

Going to receptions. Understandably, everyone wants to get married in the best season. It was so fun to see my Jerusalem friends at the second Jerusalem couple reception!

Elections! Here's campaigning Idaho style.

Farewell Fall. I guess those festivities are over. Time for new festivities. Like this:

And this:

And this.

Okay fine, now I'm ready. Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!

It's all in the GLASSES

You know those movies where the girl starts out unfortunate looking? Then all of a sudden one day she's not-so-unfortunate-looking and everyone is like Woah! Well I've noticed a common thread in these movies -almost all of those girls had glasses. I resent that. ("So do I!") I don't think that one pair of glasses makes you ugly. I wore glasses for years and I just don't want to believe that. Either you are beautiful and the glasses are just a distraction that kind of hides your beauty or there are many features contributing to the not-so-fortunate look.

What brought this all on? Well I was watching Taylor Swift's music video You Belong With Me. Check it out. Supposedly the glasses are supposed to make her look bad? Then all of a sudden she takes them off and TA-DA! Who knew she was beautiful? I did. Just look beyond the lens people. Then there's Princess Diaries which does the opposite thing with her hair. You really expect me to believe that no one could tell she had a makeover and they only notice something when she takes off her hat? Not buying it.

I'm just really concerned about this philosophy that glasses = ugly. The thing is sometimes I'm lazy and I don't want to wear my contacts so I wear my glasses. I just don't think there's a huge difference.

Without glasses:

With glasses:

Do you?

Winner for most visits goes to...

BENJY

During my time here at BYU-I I've been blessed with so many fun visitors. Each visitor has been awesome, but there is one visitor that stands above the rest and that is Benjy. He has come all the way up to Idaho each semester just to visit me. Okay fine, maybe he was coming up anyways - but he always makes an effort to see me. I've seen him every semester (and sometimes twice) and it always makes me so happy to see him and get a good Benjy hug. This is late, but here are some pictures from his visit last month -

Benjy took me out to eat with the money that Mom sent him. :) What a gem.

We had more time than usual which was way nice. I gave Benjy a little tour of campus. He was excited to see all the basketball courts. Probably as excited as he'll be that I posted this picture. Sorry Benj - I think it's cute though. We also got to watch the new Psych episode which was fun since we used to do that all the time together.

Thanks Benjy! You win the Most Visits Award. Your prize? You get an award of some sort. Uh, how about a ride in the Chair of Cheers? And no, the child didn't mention a check.

Worst (as in best) Villains

Shan Yu. Where to start. Um, he's kind of large, has creepy hair, yellow eyes, and the scariest, long eyebrows I've ever seen. And his hand pops out of the snow "like daisies." Creepy.

If I had to run into a villain then I would pick Madam Mim. She is hilarious and can make herself uglier yet. Plus she's mad about games and will give you a sporting chance. Plus in the end Merlin would show up and save me and then I could watch their wizards duel.

Sometimes animals are the villains. Usually it's the tiger or lion that's the villain (Swiss Family Robinson, Jungle Book.) Well the best animal villain is Scar. First off he's the worst brother and uncle ever. Also he hangs out with hyenas. And he has really creepy eyes.

Ugliest villain goes to this guy. I think he's a villain at least. I don't remember because I dislike the sequel Pirate movies so much that I forced myself to sleep during them. I think I'll blame him for chasing me away from watching the beautiful Will Turner.

Villains have some pretty awesome inventions. Professor Fate from the Great Race has some pretty sweet weapons, however Mrs. Meers from Thoroughly Modern Millie wins for coolest weapons. Why? Because somehow they're all in her ring or chopsticks.

For some reason Disney has this bad habit of making mothers the villain. Lady Tremaine on Cinderella. The Queen on Snow White. Well those are nothing compared to Mother Gothel. Kidnapping you and pretending to be your mother for your entire life? Creepy. Worst. Fake-Mom. Ever.

Sometimes villains are really dumb. Most of the time I think they are quite humorous. However, there's one dumb villain I never want to cross paths with and that's Lina Lemont. She can't sing, she can't dance, and she can't act. Triple threat. What a dope.

You know what would be the worst thing ever? If a villain had a crush on you. Poor Laurie. I can't believe she agreed to go to the box social with Jud Fry just to make Curly jealous. That was a stupid move. Jud is a peeping-tom who has anger issues and likes to light haystacks on fire. Yeah I'd never want him to have a crush on me.

Harry Potter has a lot of villains. A lot. Well forget about Draco Malfoy and He-who-must-not-be-named, have you seen Bellatrix Lestrange? She is the definition of evil. I was almost her for Halloween, but I didn't want to end the night without friends.

Unfortunately most of the villains on Disney Channel end up turning good at the end or they show a few redeeming qualities throughout. Well the best consistently bad villain on Disney Channel goes to Kate Sanders from Lizzie McGuire. Mostly because although she may seem nice at certain points she's not fooling me. Deep down I know she's making fun of my outfit and trying to beat me out for Ethan Craft. (Sorry about the baby picture, I couldn't find a better one.)

There's one villain that wins for giving me the most nightmares. That would be Injun Joe from Tom and Huck. I used to always watch this with my cousin Hil. She had a crush on Huck and I had a crush on Tom (JTT). We watched this movie right before she went on her mission and decided that it was totally legitimate for us to be terrified of Injun Joe. And it still is. He hangs out in graveyards, calls little boys fat, and he will ask you if the marble belongs to you. If you don't think he's that bad of a villain then watch this: Scary Injun Joe. Now do you believe me? Worst (as in best) villain ever.

How to Be a Star Bellied Sneetch

First - have a cool cousin who comes up with the idea and then lets you steal it when she can't do it with you. Next, find someone to be a star bellied sneetch with you. If you don't then your frankfurter roasts won't be fun.

Find a yellow outfit. You can try DI, but this failed us. So we went to GENX and got man shirts. It was kind of trial and error for a bit.

Figure out the stuffing. You don't want to look like Spongebob, or a pregnant lady with a star on your stomach

Get a star and sew it on. "Those stars weren’t so big. They were really so small.

You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all."

Get some brilliant collar thing going. Maybe your sister Marie can make one for you.

Sew in elastic to the bottom. Maybe your Mom will do this for you.

Get some awesome sneetch hair going on. Maybe Jessie will do this for you while you finish your homework.

Find some beautiful shoes to work the outfit with.

Go out to the cherry tree in your backyard and steal some branches. Then put mallows on them.

Lastly, make sure you raise your snoots in the air, sniff and then snort,

“We’ll have nothing to do with the Plain-Belly sort!”

WARNING: Stay away from Sylvester McMonkey McBean, he'll try and trick you!